Stiúrthóir/Director of Red Shoe Productions in An Rinn, Maggie Breathnach is motivated and inspired by people, their stories, their traditions, and their ‘why.’
Having seen The Lost Children of Tuam which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh, she was ‘moved’ by the courage, tenacity and determination of ‘an ordinary woman.’
It was this tenacity and doggedness which saw historian Catherine Corless uncover what happened in Tuam and her attempts to bring some peace to more than 700 babies and their families.
That story was brought into the public sphere in Galway through film and thus reached a new audience, or perhaps even the same audience, but in a different way- through film and with a real depth of feeling.
Maggie knew she had to do something with the feelings the film had evoked in her, such is the power of film.
This Friday, she has organised a special screening of The Lost Children of Tuam in Dungarvan Cinema with special guests in attendance, and a community of creatives who tell stories through their own medium, each an activist in their own right bringing about change.
Red Shoe Productions is moving further into scripted film and an exciting project is currently in its infancy, exploring the stories of local people who went to houses in Dublin rather than into one of the Magdalene laundries.
The story of this lesser-known alternative for woman is set to be turned into a film in the near future working with the extraordinary Maeve O’Boyle with a red carpet event planned close to home.
Maggie is inspirational, fiercely determined, and fuelled by the stories of our people.
Pour a cuppa and listen back.
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